The weak Galerkin (WG) methods have been introduced in [11, 16] for solving the biharmonic equation. The purpose of this paper is to develop an algorithm to implement the WG methods effectively. This can be achieved by eliminating local unknowns to obtain a global system with significant reduction of size. In fact this reduced global system is equivalent to the Schur complements of the WG metho...

Wingless (Wg) is an important signaling molecule in the development of Drosophila, but little is known about its signal transduction pathway. Genetic evidence indicates that another segment polarity gene, dishevelled (dsh) is required for Wg signaling. We have recently developed a cell culture system for Wg protein activity, and using this in vitro system as well as intact Drosophila embryos, w...

The patterning of the Drosophila mesoderm requires Wingless (Wg), one of the founding members of a large family of secreted glycoproteins, the Wnt family. Little is known about how Wg provides patterning information to the mesoderm, which is neither an epithelium nor contains the site of Wg production. By studying specification of muscle founder cells as marked by the lineage-specific transcrip...

Welch–Gong (WG) transformation sequences are binary sequences of period 2 1 with two-level autocorrelation. These sequences were discovered by Golomb, Gong, and Gaal in 1998 and they verified the validity of their construction for 5 20. Later, No, Chung, and Yun found another way to construct the WG sequences and verified their result for 5 23. Dillon first proved this result for odd in 1998, a...

Welch-Gong (WG) transformation sequences are binary sequences of period 2 − 1 with 2-level auto correlation. These sequences were discovered by Golomb, Gong and Gaal in 1998 and verified for 5 ≤ n ≤ 20. Later on, No, Chung and Yun found another way to construct the WG sequences and verified their result for 5 ≤ n ≤ 23. Dillon first proved this result for odd n in 1998, and finally, Dobbertin an...

Pseudorandom number generators play an important role to provide security and privacy on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. In particular, the EPC Class 1 Generation 2 (EPC C1 Gen2) standard uses a pseudorandom number generator in the tag identification protocol. In this paper, we first present a pseudorandom number generator, named the filtering nonlinear feedback shift register using...

Correction for 'The macroscopic wettable surface: fabricated by calix[4]arene-based host-guest interaction and chiral discrimination of glucose' by Yue Sun et al., Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 14416-14418.

Autonomous capillary systems (CSs) are microfluidic systems inside which liquids move owing to capillary forces. CSs can in principle bring the high-performances of microfluidic-based analytical devices to near patient and environmental testing applications. In this paper, we show how wettable capillary valves can enhance CSs with novel functionalities, such as delaying and stopping liquids in ...

Three experiments were conducted to determine the nutritional value of wheat gluten (WG) for weanling pigs. In Exp. 1, 72 pigs (4.2 kg average BW) were used in a N metabolism experiment. Treatments were 1) casein-corn-based control; 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) Diet 1 with flash-dried WG, spray-dried WG, two enzyme-modified (to increase solubility) WG, and soybean meal (SBM) used to replace casein, respe...

BACKGROUND Lack of CD28 expression on peripheral blood CD4+ and CD8+ T cells has been reported in patients with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), suggesting a pathogenetic role of CD28- T cells in WG. METHODS Ten patients with WG and six with sarcoidosis (disease control) were analysed. Fluorescence activated cell sorter (FACS) analysis was used to detect CD28 expression on T cells from peripher...